What a Tricky Pretty Consort

A noble lady from the capital, “Can she write poems? Is she good at lyre-playing, chess, calligraphy and painting? Does she know how to support her husband, educate her children, and manage household matters?”Su Yao, “What I need to do is be pretty…”
Years later:The frustrated noble lady from the capital, “Didn’t you say you just need to be pretty? Why do you rack your brains?”Su Yao, “Don’t you know you can’t buy a word a pretty said?”